Some 16th-century Italian clergymen tried to ban coffee because they believed it to be “satanic.” However, Pope Clement VII loved coffee so much that he lifted the ban and had coffee baptized in 1600.
NORTHER
Etymology
Noun
norther (plural northers)
A strong north wind.
south wind
Verb
norther (third-person singular simple present northers, present participle northering, simple past and past participle northered)
Of the wind: to move toward the north.
Adjective
norther
(archaic, dialectal) comparative form of north; northern
Anagrams
• horrent
Source: Wiktionary
North"er, n.
Definition: A wind from the north; esp., a strong and cold north wind in Texas and the vicinity of the Gulf of Mexico.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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EARTHSHAKING
(adjective) sufficiently significant to affect the whole world; “earthshaking proposals”; “the contest was no world-shaking affair”; “the conversation...could hardly be called world-shattering”
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